The Council shall meet in regular session once a month. The Council
shall determine at each July meeting the day of the month upon which
regular meetings are to be held during the subsequent 12 months. The
Council shall also determine at each July meeting the starting time
of the subsequent meetings.

At Council meetings, no member of the Council shall speak more
than once on the same question until every member wishing to speak
shall have done so, nor more than twice nor for a greater length of
time than 15 minutes on any question, without permission of the Council.
A member of the Council addressing the Council shall confine himself
or herself to the question before the Council and avoid personal or
indecorous language. No member shall interrupt another while speaking
except to make a point of order to the presiding officer.

Every proposed franchise asked for from the Council shall be
presented in print or typewritten form at the expense of the petitioner
and a copy of the same provided for each member of the Council at
the meeting when such franchise is so presented, and no such request
shall be considered as having been presented to the Council until
so printed or typewritten.

No general ordinance shall be adopted by the Council unless
and until it shall have been first introduced and read at a meeting
of the Council and thereafter at a subsequent meeting brought up,
discussed and adopted in accordance with existing requirements of
state law and of the Code and other ordinances of the Town respecting
adoption of ordinances by the Council. The requirement of being "read"
at a meeting may be confined to the reading of the title only and
not verbatim; provided an announcement is made at the meeting that
a copy of the proposed ordinance is available in the Town office for
review. If, in the opinion of Council, an emergency exists that requires
the immediate adoption of an ordinance or amendment thereto, any such
ordinance or amendment thereto may be adopted on introduction without
any further readings or meetings.

If a member of the Council at any meeting of the Council has
been recorded as present, he or she shall not, without permission
of the Council, absent himself or herself from such meeting until
its adjournment.

At a Council meeting, a motion to adjourn shall always be in
order, except when a member has the floor, when the Council is engaged
in voting, when the previous question has been ordered or when the
motion to adjourn has been put and lost and no other business has
intervened.

Any member of the Council who obtains the floor during the debate
and submits no other motion or remark may move for the previous question,
which motion, if seconded, shall forthwith be put to Council.

In all matters pending before the Council, a majority shall
govern, except in cases where it is otherwise specifically provided.
Each member of the Council who shall be present when any question
is put or ballot taken shall vote or ballot as the case may be, unless
personally interested or excused by the Council.

At a Council meeting, on the call of any member of the Council,
the vote on any question may be taken by ayes and nays and recorded;
provided, however, that the demand be made before other business has
been taken up.

Any member of the Council shall have the liberty to dissent
from, or protest against, any ordinance, resolution or order of the
Council, and have the reason for his or her dissent entered upon the
record; provided, however, that such dissent shall be entered of record
at the meeting at which the action dissented from is taken and shall
not be entered of record at a later meeting.

At a Council meeting, in all cases a motion to reconsider will
be entertained only when made by a member of the Council who voted
with the prevailing side. A majority of those present can reconsider
any vote, but the motion to do so shall be made at the same session
of the Council during which such vote was taken. A motion to reconsider
shall have precedence over all other questions, and when it has once
been put and lost, it shall not be renewed.